Police have released the name of the pedestrian killed Thursday evening as he crossed the street.
Roy Salinas, 28, was struck by a Chevrolet pickup truck as he crossed the 2300 block of 50th Street just before 8 p.m.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine students will host a Women's Health Day free clinic from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 31 at the Lubbock IMPACT/TTUHSC Free Clinic, 2707 34th St.

The South Plains Council of the Boy Scouts of America hosted AT&T's chairman and chief executive officer, Randall Stephenson, as the South Plains organization's keynote speaker Wednesday in its annual Friends of Scouting Luncheon.

SPC gala attracts record support
Community leaders, former students, faculty, staff and friends of South Plains College turned out Saturday to recognize the importance of scholarships for future SPC students and raised more than $150,000 for scholarships at the 14th-annual Scholarship Gala.
More than 500 people attended the event. The scholarship gala was hosted by City Bank and the South Plains College Foundation. Great Western Dining served as underwriting partner for the event.

When tragedy strikes, they run to trouble while everyone else runs away. They risk their lives every day to save others. The Metropolitan Lubbock Rotary Club and American State Bank hosted the ninth annual Unsung Heroes recognition ceremony Thursday.

For more than 20 years, the Sudan girls' basketball team has advanced from the district level. Five of the 11 girls on the 2011-12 basketball team have mothers who competed at the state level for Sudan.